Question about setting up my nas box as a router.

[RomanNose]

Currently I am just using the default superhub as the modem + router, however I would like to put it in modem mode and use another device as a router to increase stability + add functionality.
I have tested my other router which is a wrt 120n however it just cannot cope with the 50mbit wan and is only giving me about 30mbit, so I am now really tempted to switch my nas box into a fully fledged router + firewall.
I am wondering if it's possible to force some of the clients to connect to a vpn using pptp and leave other clients using it normally, the reason I ask this is that on the clients I have to manually create scheduled tasks for them to connect to the VPN and some of the devices don't even have vpn functionality. As well as this I will be able to use one VPN instead of buying separate accounts as I have heard that you can only have one connection with vpn providers.
I will probably go ahead with this project anyway as the router side of the superhub does not have that many features and is a bit unstable.

 

[J.B]

Are you sure about that? Your router/modem should get the speed from Virgin and then anything beyond that should just run as fast as it can on the internal network which will be over 50 meg most likely.

As for your other questions you could set up pfsense as a firewall which works quite well for me, but there are a few different ones out there.

Dont really understand what you are asking about VPNs. Have clients connect from where to where? Do you mean connecting in externally?

 

[RomanNose]

Are you sure about that? Your router/modem should get the speed from Virgin and then anything beyond that should just run as fast as it can on the internal network which will be over 50 meg most likely.

As for your other questions you could set up pfsense as a firewall which works quite well for me, but there are a few different ones out there.

Dont really understand what you are asking about VPNs. Have clients connect from where to where? Do you mean connecting in externally?

No, I mean connecting outwards externally. With the superhub I get 50mbit however with modem mode and using the wrt 120n I get about 30mbit, I have done some googling and people say that these routers are designed for dsl connections and will only go up to 20-30mbit on the wan. All I want to do is for some of the clients, e.g 192.168.0.7 I would like to route that wan traffic through a vpn provider like strong vpn.

 

[J.B]

Right well you could probably do it by setting up a permanent PPTP tunnel between your firewall box and a VPN provider and then set up some rules to route traffic from certain clients via the VPN interface.

Possible but might be a bit fiddly

 

[RomanNose]

Right well you could probably do it by setting up a permanent PPTP tunnel between your firewall box and a VPN provider and then set up some rules to route traffic from certain clients via the VPN interface.

Possible but might be a bit fiddly

I see, I would expect this stuff has been done before but my google fu is too weak to find what to do.